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 Puebla
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The Mexican state of Puebla is located in the center of the country, to the east of Mexico City. It shares its name with its capital and main city, Puebla. The state of Puebla borders the states of Veracruz to the east, Hidalgo, México, Tlaxcala, and Morelos to the west, and Guerrero and Oaxaca to the south. The state covers an area of about 33,919 km². The terrain is mostly mountainous. In 2003 the estimated population was 5,377,800 people. In addition to the city of
Puebla, the state includes the cities of Tehuacán, Atlixco, Cholula,
and the towns of Acatlán, Chignahuapan, Chipilo, Ciudad Serdán,
Cuetzalán, Izúcar de Matamoros and Teziutlán.
The city of Puebla – officially the heroic city of Puebla de Zaragoza, and nicknamed Puebla de los Ángeles or La Angelópolis – is the capital and largest city of the state of the same name with a population of 1,485,941. The metropolitan area of the city, however, extends over 10 municipalities of the state of Puebla and 13 of the state of Tlaxcala, and with a population of 2.1 million it is fourth most populated metropolitan area in Mexico and one of the largest in North America. Puebla is an important industrial, cultural and educational center of Mexico for the central and south-east regions. It is also one of the oldest colonial cities in the continent. Puebla is located in the
Valley of Puebla, surrounded by volcanoes and snow-capped mountains, slightly
over 110 kilometres south-east of Mexico City.
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